Thanks Jason, I thought about it.

Since we are running the ancient Debian Etch on this unit, I have no access to 
ethtool, with which I understand that you can switch to 100mpbs. Is there any 
other way to force 100mbps operation?


Cheers,
Ramesh




> On 17. Apr 2020, at 15:10, Jason Manley <jman...@ska.ac.za> wrote:
> 
> Can you try it with a 100mbps link partner? ROACH1's PHY was notoriously 
> fickle at 1Gbps. We never did get to the bottom of it, even with Nat.Semi's 
> support, and switched PHYs on ROACH2.
> 
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>> On 17 Apr 2020, at 14:56, Ramesh Karuppusamy <ram...@mpifr-bonn.mpg.de> 
>> wrote:
>> 
>> Dear All,
>> 
>> I hope you are all staying healthy.
>> 
>> The gigabit ethernet on our ~10 year old ROACH1 board went silent all of a 
>> sudden this morning. The ethernet port show no activity (the yellow LED 
>> flickers very occasionally). On booting the unit off the SD card, and 
>> manually bringing up the interface shows the following message on the serial 
>> console and keeps repeating:
>> 
>> eth0: link is down
>> root@roach:~# eth0: link is up, 1000 FDX
>> eth0: link is down
>> eth0: link is up, 1000 FDX
>> eth0: link is down
>> 
>> The board does not respond to pings either. 
>> 
>> I tried a different cable, a differ port on the switch, and opened up the 
>> board to examine the said port - nothing looks suspicious. Does anyone have 
>> an idea on what could be the issue here?
>> 
>> Thanks in advance for any of your suggestions!
>> 
>> Cheers,
>> Ramesh
>> 
>> 
>> 
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